Marinate vs Massage - What's the difference?
marinate | massage |
To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.
The action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches.
To rub and knead (someone's body or a part of a body), to perform a massage on (somebody).
To manipulate (data, a document etc.) to make it more presentable or more convenient to work with.
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* 2008 , Patrick Wintour & Steven Morris, The Guardian , May 22 2008, p. 3:
To falsify (data or accounts).
As verbs the difference between marinate and massage
is that marinate is to allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking while massage is to rub and knead (someone's body or a part of a body), to perform a massage on (somebody).As a noun massage is
the action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches.marinate
English
Verb
- You'll get a better flavour from the chicken if you marinate it first.
Anagrams
* ----massage
English
Noun
(en noun)- Having a massage can have many beneficial effects.
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* erotic massage * massager * massage parlour, massage parlor * massage therapist * massotherapyVerb
(massag)- News relating to public disturbances was systematically massaged [...].
- The Conservatives have massaged expectations down by saying they would be delighted with a majority of 1,000 [...]